Karnataka CM on arrest of JD(S) leader HD Revanna in kidnapping case

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Updated: May 04, 2024 11:06 PM IST

Bengaluru (Karnataka) (India), May 4 (ANI): After Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Revanna was taken into custody by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in a kidnapping case, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said he will do not interfere in the matter, because the law will take its own course.
“We do not interfere with this because the law will take its own course. He had applied for anticipatory bail but was rejected in the kidnapping case. I don’t know anything about the kidnapped lady. I haven’t spoken to the police yet,” he said.
Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs HK Patil also asserted that the law has taken the right course.
Replying to the demand to bring JD(S) leader Prajwal Revanna back to India, Patil said, “The government’s efforts are on.”
Karnataka Deputy CM DK Sivakumar said, “I am not aware of it. The law will take its own course…”

Meanwhile, JD(S) leader HD Revanna was taken to a hospital for medical tests after being taken into custody earlier in the evening due to an STD.
The action against Revanna was based on a complaint filed by the son of a woman who was allegedly “kidnapped and sexually assaulted” in the obscene video case.
In his complaint to KR Nagar police in Mysuru, the man said his mother had worked as a maid at HD Revanna’s house for six years before returning to her village, where she worked as a daily wage labourer.
The man later discovered a video allegedly depicting the sexual abuse of his mother by sitting MP and Hassan Lok Sabha candidate Prajwal Revanna. He said his mother went missing shortly after the video was revealed. He then filed a kidnapping complaint against HD Revanna and Babanna.
The FIR has been filed at KR Nagar police station in Mysuru and a case falls under Sections 376(2)(N), 506, 354A(1), 354(B), 354(c) and 354(c) of the Indian Criminal Code (IPC). a case has also been filed against the JD(S) leader under relevant sections of the Information Technology (IT) Act.
Prajwal Revanna is the grandson of party supremo and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda.
The Karnataka government has constituted a special investigation team to probe the alleged obscene video case against Prajwal Revanna. (ANI)